Saturday, February 1, 2014

Some Kinda Itch

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Welcome to Episode 40 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! The winter this year has been pretty brutal, with minus temperatures most of January, so I thought I'd do a new show today and rotate in some new vinyl purchases lately. 5 more weeks of winter, and the weather should be getting warmer. We'll see what the groundhog will say tomorrow.

There's some rare stuff on the show today, like Happy Go Licky, the band after Rites of Spring with all the same members. It's an early Peterbilt Records release and a live show recording. There's also a John Peel Session of Captain Sensible's "Antipope." I also put at track from the new Broncho single, and if they come to your town, you need to check them out. There's a track from The Atom Age, as well as new tracks from Johnny Marr and local Lincoln, NE favorites, Weldon Keys. There's a rad track from Debris'.

The show is about 90 minutes. The playlist is: Lush, Broncho, Scream, Off!, Johnny Marr, Mothra, Rocket from the Crypt, The Make-Up, Red Cities, Weldon Keys, Captain Sensible, The Atom Age, Debris', Jawbox, Zen Guerilla, Code of Honor, Pailhead, Sick Pleasure, Drive Like Jehu, My Bloody Valentine, The Three O'Clock, My Bloody Valentine, Rites of Spring, The Dream Syndicate, Dinosaur Jr., Happy Go Licky, Sonic Youth, Office of Future Plans, Fear.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Red Cities - Live at Duffy's Tavern w/The Atom Age 9.04.13


Welcome to Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Today I've posted a live set by Red Cities, a Lincoln, NE punk rock/garage punk band in which I play guitar. It's a live set at Duffy's Tavern when we opened for The Atom Age, a Berkeley/Oakland, CA band influenced by Rocket from the Crypt. Enjoy the live set, and be sure to turn it up loud!

The set is about 51 minutes. 

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Doc Rockavoy

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Invert the State

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Welcome to episode 39 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been some time since I posted a new show, as things have been busy this past summer and fall. I've been gigging with my new band, Red Cities, and co-running a record label, Modern Peasant Records, with Robert and Nate from The Putters. In between, I've gotten some new vinyl and found some old stuff in my record collection to put on the show.

For the new stuff, there's some Times New Viking, their first album on Siltbreeze Records, and also a Pre-Opal track on a rare release by Kendra Smith, from The Dream Syndicate with David Roback and William Mitchell. There's a live track from the re-issue of Come, 11:11 and the re-mastered Queens of the Stone Age first album, as well as the Lungfish ACR sessions release. I put on a track by Death, too.

I found my TSOL E.P., and "Man and Machine" kicks off the show. I put on a rare Rocket from the Crypt single, on Merge Records, "Pigeon Eater" for the The Atom Age guys we played with in Lincoln, who are much influenced by them.

There's some local Lincoln, NE bands on the show, off Dirty Talker's "Letters," and also Powers first release. There's a hot, rock'in track from the The Putters "Good Friends with Your Mother" E.P., as well as Red Cities "Burnout." I found the first Green River album, so there's something from that here.

The playlist is: TSOL, My Bloody Valentine, Kinski, QOTSA, My Bloody Valentine, Times New Viking, Embrace, Jawbox, Rocket From the Crypt, Red Cities, Dirty Talker, The Putters, Powers, Zombie vs. Shark, Obits, Kendra Smith (Pre-Opal), Deathfix, Lungfish, Come, Broncho, Death, The Dirtbombs, Turbonegro, Green River, Government Issue, The Damned, Lungfish.

The show is about 80 minutes.

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Doc Rockavoy

Friday, May 24, 2013

Looking at You

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Welcome of Episode 38 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've taken a long hiatus from the podcast, mostly due to traveling too much the past year, and also that my son, Spencer, is raring to go on the weekends in the morning, after school, and all other waking times. We do lots of stuff together, and my hours for doing my own stuff are limited. That's cool, so I had some time today to get some new vinyl into the ether.

On the show today are a bunch of local bands from both Lincoln, NE and Norman, OK where I've lived,a and now live, so be sure to check out the new Putters track, this is my friend Robert's Seattle band, and they get together to record every summer. There's also a new track from the legendary Debris', which is from a single out on Little Mafia Records. There's also tracks by the Lincoln bands The Renfields and UUVVWWZ, which are off new full length albums. There's one from my new band, Red Cities, off a new 7" coming out next month.

Other standouts on the show is a live Damned track of the MC5's "Looking at You"; Also "Songs to Make Michael Jackson Money" by Das Damen, which is a cover of Magical Mystery Tour with Wayne Kramer on guitar. There's a great track off the newly released Rites of Spring demo out on Dischord, sounds really rad and rackety. Also, a new Kinski track off there raring new album.

The playlist for today is: Desert Sessions, The Putters, Thee Hypnotics, Redd Kross, Jet Black, Iron Butterfly, Red Cities, The Renfields, Rites of Spring, The Three O'Clock, Code of Honor, The Damned, UUVVWWZ, Debris', Kinski, DOA, and Das Damen.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Popol Vuh

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Welcome to Episode 37 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It seems that fall is on its way, with the seasonal shift in sunlight, so I bet everyone is tired waking up in the dark. September is always a good month, not too hot, not too cold, but just close enough to Halloween and pumpkin season to make it all worthwhile. We'll head off to the Roca pumpkin patch this year with Spencer to get our usual carving Jack'O    Lanterns, and then get a Halloween outfit. He was a vampire last year, and mummies are really in right now, so that one should be easy, just white ace bandages. Other than that, I finally got my new garage punk/psychedelia band up and running, called Red Cities (more Red Vienna than OKC, by the way....), and we'll be out gigging in November. This is the last podcast before I embark on 14 straight days of work, so the next one will likely be all punk rock!

I put on a lot of the same artist this show, dominated by the prince of darkness himself, Mark Lanegan. He certainly tops Bob Dylan as America's all-time singer-songwriter, but he didn't have a (lame) magazine like Rolling Stone to promote him and dozens of bad yuppie-growing-up films to make him the soundtrack to people's lives. There's also some Gardes on the show, this track with Watermelon Slim. I threw on some Lush, Kyuss, Flying Saucer Attack (their back-catalog is huge), and the John Cale mixes of The Stooges first album, if you haven't heard them. 

The show is about 105 minutes, and the playlist is: Flying Saucer Attack, Lush, The Gardes, Swervedriver, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Kyuss, Sonic Youth, Flying Saucer Attack, The Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Zen Guerilla, Mark Lanegan, P.J. Harvey, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, and The Doors.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Every Man For Himself

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Welcome to Episode 36 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Well, the Fall equinox is upon us and the seasonal shift in sunlight is making everyone tired. After a scorching hot summer, we got our first rain this week, which caused the trees to perk up. Hopefully these hot summers will not be the norm, as mother nature does what it wants no matter what you believe about science. Nothing really going on lately, except skateboarding and Spencer starting school, so there's nothing to report. I hope everyone celebrated themselves over Labor Day weekend!

Today I put on some stuff I don't listen to very often, bands like Faraquet, Skinyard, Q and Not U, The Evens, Slant 6 among others. These bands are great, though! I put on a Skinyard tune that has the infamous Helios Creed on second guitar, so all you Hawkwind fans should dig it, and you'll note how often Helios Creed has been ripped off by other bands! I started the show with "Teenager in a Box" by Government Issue, which was a rare 7" EP that had Brian Baker on guitar. My friend Kasey owned it, and I have it on tape, but Dischord released the GI Complete Sessions, so it's available again. There's some Obits, Times New Viking (the Slitbreeze Records EP), and Articles of Faith, which has influenced a lot of loud, math-rocky types of bands, notably the local OKC band CHUD. The new Redd Kross album is on here, too.

The show is about 80 minutes, and the playlist is: Government Issue, Dream Syndicate, Broncho, Obits, Depth and Current, Off!, Times New Viking, Slant 6, Faraquet, Redd Kross, Rites of Spring, Scream, Lungfish, Dag Nasty, The Faith, Fugazi, 7 Seconds, The Evens, Skinyard, The Cult, Q and Not U, Scream, The Stooges, Dag Nasty, The Dirtbombs, Code of Honor.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Sunday, August 26, 2012

I've Got News For You

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Welcome to Episode 35 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been away lately, traveling for work and just scratching to catch up with everything, including my podcast. The Plains heat wave of 2012 finally broke, and it rained, all day, yesterday, so I'm looking forward to my vegetable garden recovering and yielding some yummy stuff before the first frost. An ethno-botanist I know said this year was one of the worst droughts in the paleo-ecological record, and among the ethnohistorical record on the Plains, and we had a discussion about the bummer of no summer home grown vegetables. We're at the mercy of the catch basin for Rocky Mountain moisture! The Plains live and die by it.

Beyond nerding out on home gardens, I've got another punk rock and hardcore filled show today, again, and  this might be one of the last heavy shows for some time, as I'm feeling the need record some shows that have jazz/R & B, and other stuff out of my record collection soon. I think I'll do one more heavy show this late summer/fall. After that, I'll move into some more mellow territory with the show.

Well, there's some good stuff on here today. I decided, again, to put on Montreal-based post-punk band Jet Black, who's sound is in the Swervedriver and Jawbox vein. Their album, Escape Measures is worth mail-ordering and putting in your record collection. I also put on a tune by Truman's Water, which was this crazy noise/math rock band that reminds me of a very distorted Pavement. I also put on "Moral Majority" by Youth Brigade, not the L.A. Better Youth Organization Records band, but the DC hardcore band from the "Flex Your Head" compilation. This song has now assumed some currency, after 33 years. Who would have thought? I also put on a weird tune by Sick Pleasure, and also Ignition, if you know your punk, you'll know these bands.

The show is about 75 minutes, and the playlist is: Embrace, Off!, Code of Honor, MIA, Government Issue, The Cramps, Das Damen, Jimi Hendrix, Jet Black, Lungfish, Kraut, MC5, Truman's Water, Fugazi, Government Issue, Youth Brigade, Off! Scream, Desert Sessions, Grand Mal, Sick Pleasure, Gray Matter, The Make-Up, The Dirtbombs, Ignition, and Minor Threat.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy